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mum igitur leges oportet contendere considerando,
utra lex ad maiores, hoc est ad utiliores, ad hone-
stiores ac magis necessarias res pertineat; ex quo
conficitur, ut, si leges duae aut si plures erunt, aut
quotquot erunt, conservari non possint, quia discrepent
inter se, sed ea maxime conservanda putetur, quae
ad maximas res pertinere videatur; deinde, utra lex
posterius lata sit; nam postrema quaeque gravissima
est; deinde, utra lex iubeat aliquid, utra permittat;
nam id, quod imperatur, necessarium, illud, quod per-
mittitur, voluntarium est; deinde, in utra lege, si non
optemperatum sit,
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